Dean's Profile & Message
Dr. Santosh Dhar
Rector & Dean
Dr. Santosh Dhar is Rector at Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore and also Dean, Faculty of Doctoral Studies and Research. She has been engaged in teaching, research, corporate training and consultancy for the last 42 years. She has widely published her work and has 378 publications to her credit. Her earlier assignments have been Professor, Shri Vaishnav Institute of Management, Indore; Professor, Amity Business School, Amity University, Greater Noida campus; Professor, Institute of Management & Dean Research, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur; Senior Professor, OB/HR Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur; Professor and Chairperson OB/HR Area, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad; and Guest Faculty at IIM Kolkata and MICA, Ahmedabad.
Many research scholars have been awarded Ph.D degree under her supervision. She has designed and conducted management development programs for the executives of several business houses, such as Grasim Industries, J.K. Tyre, Bridgestone, Hindustan Motors, ONGC, Eicher and GAIL to name a few. She has been on the Panel of Reviewers of the Oxford University Press and Tata McGraw-Hill. She was Managing Editor of Prestige Journal of Management and Research and Prestige Research Abstracts. She has been Chairperson of Indian Society for Training and Development (Indore and Jaipur Chapter) and had been on the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Training and Development. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences / seminars and had the opportunity to visit Kathmandu (Nepal), Male (Maldives), Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing, Shangai, Guanzhou, Shenzen, Hong Kong (China),Seoul (South Korea)Dubai, US, Poland in connection with various professional assignments.
Dr. Dhar has coordinated the implementation of a project on the Empowerment of Women through Enterprise in North India (2000-2002), which was funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has completed the research project on Problems of Women Trainers in India and Quality of Work Life as a Determinant of Mental Healthin Pharmaceutical Industry. She has also been principal investigator for Asian Development Bank funded and Rajasthan Government sponsored RUIDP Consultancy project on Capacity Building of ULBs of different towns of Rajasthan. She has twice been chairperson of Indian Society for Training and Development, Indore Chapter & Chairperson of the Best Paper Award of the Indian Society for Training and Development, New Delhi. Dr. Dhar was conferred National Fellowship for her contributions to HR by the Indian Society for Training and Development in 2006-07. She is life member of Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD), National Human Resource Development (NHRD), and Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
Dean Message
Every Institution of Higher Learning has to develop institutional research agenda and formulate policies to nurture quality research culture. Research, at the University, has not to be just a philosophy but the very essence of all its academic endeavors. The success of a University is greatly contingent upon the research orientation of the faculty. In order to contribute to the society and provide solutions to the challenging problems, the research at the University has to focus on creation of new knowledge and its applications. The faculties as well as students of the University need to actively get involved in socially relevant research. In order to encourage research within the University and to build a research culture for knowledge generation, the University under Faculty of Doctoral Studies and Research (FDSR) has made provisions to establish minimum standards for research activities to build research capacity and mentor researchers. We are optimistic that during the coming years FDSR will reach the noticeable heights with full cooperation from professional colleagues, academicians and research scholars at large in its endeavor to be the Institution of Excellence.
Dr. Santosh Dhar
Rector & Dean
Dr. Santosh Dhar
Rector & Dean